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Originally posted by CX
As has been pointed out already, this has allegedly happened twice in the past few years, and you only have to look at the websites showing the odds of the drills and actual attacks happening at the same time, to see that something is amiss here. Please correct me if these are innacurate, but i'm just providing a link to one of hundreds of similar sites on the web showing the figures.
www.global-conspiracies.com...
Originally posted by CX
As has been pointed out already, this has allegedly happened twice in the past few years, and you only have to look at the websites showing the odds of the drills and actual attacks happening at the same time, to see that something is amiss here. Please correct me if these are innacurate, but i'm just providing a link to one of hundreds of similar sites on the web showing the figures.
www.global-conspiracies.com...
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Firstly this is an impossible statistic, due to the very nature of terrorism you cannot make a statistic of '3 stations being bombed at the same time in the past 5 years' as it has only happened once. A better fact would be bomb threats in the past 5 years and how they corresponded to the drills that were occuring. You wil find that every day there will be some company connected to the underground, or either a military or civilian authority running some kind of drill in London. Its just the way things work.
Secondly, as the Essan stated, one city firm was running a dry-training drill in response to any terror or extreme civil disturbance attack. dry-training means that all they do, as essan stated is sit around a table and discuss what they have to do if the event occurs. I have attended similar ones with SJA, a volunteer firstaid group on the risk of major incident care, and there is no conspiracy there.
Thirdly, the first poster appears to be claiming that 9/11 and 7/7 were directed by the government, and he fears this would happen 'again'. The chances of these two events, or in fact either one of them being planned and executed by the governments is, using the websites 'statistical genius' around
1,355,653,589,475,739,494,830,300,000,393,828,227,484,895,959 to one
thats a lot more than grains of sand!!
Originally posted by Essan
But there were no drills at the time of the London Underground bombings....
This all seems to have arisen from that fact that one firm (out of thousands) in the the City was planning to hold it's routine emergency planning exercise (which consists of a few selected members of staff sitting around a table - the purpose is to see whether, in the event of communications being lost, data being destroyed or key members of staff being missing the company can still operate) on the same day.
It's an exercise most City firms have carried out at least once a year ever since the bombings of the 1990s.
Edit: I'm not statistician but I'm pretty sure the probability stats on that website are complete rubbish.
[edit on 6-6-2006 by Essan]
Originally posted by Liberal1984
The trouble is I could see the government using any trouble caused by the terrorists "cunning timing" to make secret all future government rehersals (so it doesn't happen again).